Role Of Sociability Research Articles

Switching behaviors in peer-to-peer mobile payment applications: the role of sociability

PurposeUsing features of social media, peer-to-peer (P2P) mobile payment enables users to foster social interaction every time transactions are made. Given the increasing popularity of social features in P2P mobile payment applications, it is worth understanding how these components contribute to users’ switching behavior between conventional mobile payment and P2P mobile payment services. By treating sociability of P2P mobile payment as a pull factor, this study aims to extend the push–pull–mooring framework in the context of P2P mobile payment.Design/methodology/approachA questionnaire survey was conducted to obtain data. Respondents from the USA were exclusively selected due to the emerging number of P2P mobile payment users and the volume of transactions in this country. Based on a sample of 232 Amazon Mechanical Turk mobile payment users, the authors tested the hypotheses using the partial least squares structural equation model technique with SmartPLS software version 3.FindingsThe finding reveals that sociability is triggered by social presence, social benefit and social support within the P2P mobile payment platform. Moreover, dissatisfaction with perceived enjoyment of conventional mobile payment (push factor), customer innovativeness (mooring factor) and sociability of P2P mobile payment (pull factor) jointly influence users’ intention to switch to P2P mobile payment services, and subsequently drive their migration behavior.Originality/valueUnlike past research that mainly focuses on utilitarian-related factors, to the best of the authors’ knowledge, this study is among the first to thoroughly examine the sociability features of P2P mobile payment service as a form of a social-centric system.

An Insula-Enriched Regulator of Retinoic Acid Marks a New Intersection in the Neural Circuitry of Mouse Social Behavior

An Insula-Enriched Regulator of Retinoic Acid Marks a New Intersection in the Neural Circuitry of Mouse Social Behavior

Mark Philp. Radical Conduct: Politics, Sociability and Equality in London, 1789–1815.

The political worlds of eighteenth-century Britain were associational and sociable. They were based around who knew whom, in what social circles, and how those groups interacted and debated ideas. In the later eighteenth century, as revolutions swept the empire and Europe, a radical sociability was fostered in London, bringing together thinkers and writers on alternative modes of government and society. Mark Philp’s new book, Radical Conduct: Politics, Sociability and Equality in London, 1789–1815, raises some vital questions about the role of sociability in the politics of this period. It is grounded, as much of Philp’s previous work is, in the most influential family in the alternative political world in London, that of William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft, and their associates, including Mary Hays, Thomas Holcroft, Elizabeth Inchbald, and Amelia Alderson. But moving on from his prior focus on Godwin’s political thought, Philp examines the bounds of the social “circle” itself. How many people was it possible to know well in an expanding metropolis? What was the role of trust and betrayal? To what extent was it possible for radical groups, particularly bourgeois and privileged ones, to interact on equal terms and “spread” ideas?

THE ROLE OF SOCIABILITY IN OLDER ADULTS' ADAPTATION TO COVID-19

Abstract Some older adults may be particularly sensitive to the negative effects of social disruptions due to COVID-19 (Tyrrell & Williams, 2020). For example, the unique circumstances of the pandemic may have made greater sociability a liability (Wijngaards et al., 2020). The current study used a community sample of 136 older adults (M age = 67.77, range 50-91; 69.3% females; 93% White) to explore whether sociability moderated links between disruptions to contact with friends and family and indicators of mental health. Using a series of hierarchical linear regressions, we found that sociability moderated the association between disruptions in family interactions and depressive symptoms. For more sociable individuals, disruptions in family interactions were more strongly positively associated with depressive symptoms. Given the potential for future social disruptions due to COVID-19, our findings point to the importance of considering the role of sociability in developing interventions targeting older adults.

The Suppression of English Bards and Scotch Reviewers: An Unpublished Letter from Lord Holland to Samuel Rogers

This article faithfully reproduces a letter from Lord Holland to Samuel Rogers, including deletions, hyphenated words, underlines, and paragraphs, to evidence how Samuel Rogers interceded in the suppression of a fifth edition of Byron’s English Bards and Scotch Reviewers. Rogers’s knowledge of the publishing market, its publishing houses and successful authors, made him one of the most formidable and important of Byron’s acquaintances and contemporaries in the 1810s. This article demonstrates the important role of Rogers as an individual whose political negotiations and literary advice impacted the literary landscape of the Romantic period. The decision to suppress the fifth edition of English Bards also shows how Byron navigated literary and political opinion, as well as the role of sociability in the production and genetics of literary text. Professional authorship in the Romantic period was performed within this context of social networks.

Fear of being near: Fear supersedes sociability when interacting amid a pandemic

In the COVID-19 era, physical interactions ubiquitously pose a disease threat. Using a novel online paradigm, this study tested whether under such unique circumstances, the fundamental motivation to avoid disease-related threats interacts with individual differences in sociability, such that: (i) responses to others are slowed down, particularly among sociable individuals, reflecting motivational tension; (ii) the role of sociability in predicting interaction likelihood is diminished. Participants (Israeli young adults, N = 207) listened to auditory descriptions of everyday social situations, taking place in either the physical or virtual space, and decided quickly whether to interact. Participants also completed the Sociability Scale (Cheek & Buss, 1981). Responses were slower in the physical compared to virtual space, regardless of sociability. The association between interaction likelihood and sociability was stronger in the virtual space, with sociability mirrored by self-reported fear of COVID-19 in predicting interaction likelihood. We propose that when physical contact with others poses a threat to safety, fear supersedes sociability in guiding behavior in physical interactions.

Effect of Emotions and Sociability on Human Decisions

In the recent trends of research in cognitive science, psychology, neurology etc., emotions and sociability attracted the scientifically attention from decision researchers who are working in interdisciplinary areas. Decision making was viewed as a cognitive processa matter of estimating which of various alternative actions would yield the most positive consequences. Humans or decision makers are assumed to evaluate the potential consequences of their decisions dispassionately and to choose actions that maximized the utility of those consequences. The last several years, however, have witnessed a burst of interest in the role of emotions in decision making. Research conducted within the last decade has shown that even incidental affect that is unrelated to the decisions at hand can have a significant impact on judgment and choice (Bagozzi, Dholakia, & Basuroy, 2003; Barnes, & Thagard, 1996). Emotional deficits, whether innate or experimentally induced can degrade the quality of decision making (Damasio, 1994). Incorporating affect in models of decision making can greatly increase their explanatory power. Thus, contemporary decision research is characterized by an intense focus on emotions in behavioral and cognitive perspectives.In a similar line, we have several supported views of inculcating the minds of researchers in the role of sociability in decision making process. Sociability is an interpersonal skill or potential element to promote the thought process and insights and new emotion-related developments in order to make effective decisions. Thus the researchers concentrate to explore the influence of sociability on decision making in cognitive and behavioral dimensions. Human performance in the domain of decision taking has been the subject of active research from several perspectives. From a psychological perspective, it is necessary to examine individual decisions in the context of a set of needs, preferences and values they seek. From a cognitive perspective, the decision making process must be regarded as a continuous process integrated in the interaction of human with environment. From a normative perspective, the analysis of individual decisions is concerned with the logic of decision making and rationality along with the invariant choice it leads to.Yet, at another level, it might be regarded as a problem solving activity which is terminated when a satisfactory solution is reached. Therefore, decision making is a reasoning or emotional process which can be rational or irrational, based on explicit assumptions or tacit assumptions. As sociability influences the human decisions, People with low sociability due to lack of required interpersonal communication and social skills cannot make decisions on the frontline. These people may work better in situations that limit social interaction. People with high sociability work well with direct contact and communication skills for making effective decisions. In this dimension, the emotions and sociability plays vital role in psychological perspectives with emotional stability in making effective decisions.The variety of emotions and sociability in different perspectives, have major role in designing the network of decisions. Behind every decision in cognitive and behavioral aspects the brain circuitry allows the emotions in two pathways namely direct and indirect ways.Recent research suggests that emotions are just as influential as cognitive processes when it comes to decision making. This is interesting because emotions are often considered irrational occurrences that may distort reasoning (Barnes & Thagard, 1996). Research done by Isen and Patrick (1983) put forth the theory of mood maintenance which states that happy decision-makers are reluctant to gamble. In other words happy people decide against gambling, since they would not want to undermine the happy feeling. Raghunathan and Pham (1999) studied that emotions cannot simply be classified as positive or negative as we need to consider the consequences of the emotions in ultimate decision-making. …